Kalle Anttila 50 Years Old: '25 Years as CEO Was Enough for Me'

Kaarlo Anttila, the former CEO and current board member of Kalle Anttila Oy, has sold the majority of his company's shares to Tuko. After a quarter-century leading the business, Anttila, who turns 50 today, expressed that he has had enough of the daily routines and plans to adopt a more relaxed lifestyle.

Known within business circles as a competent marketer and a folksy leader, Anttila's decision to sell prompted concern among the company's long-serving employees, who wondered about his future plans. Anttila began his entrepreneurial journey in the early 1950s with a successful mail-order mattress business, which has since evolved into a company with a vastly different product range.

In other news, Helsinki's cinemas are currently featuring a strong lineup of films. Among the longest-running hits are Risto Jarva's "The Man Who Couldn't Say No," Akira Kurosawa's "Dersu Uzala," and Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Other notable screenings include Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta's "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum," Éric Rohmer's "Chloe in the Afternoon," Sergei Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," Howard Zieff's "Slap Shot," and Herbert Ross's "The Sunshine Boys."

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A quarter-century as the company's CEO was enough for me, at least. In that time, one gets to know the daily routines perhaps too well.